All that glitters is not gold... If you sweep the typical Comet, Hustler and Diamond Multi-band antennas... you'll find they are fairly limited in band width and rarely cover an entire Amateur Band Segment with decent SWR (reflected power, return loss) values. They work fairly well for many people in casual FM service but you might find your repeater operates at one portion of the band where the SWR value is not pretty...
As an example, the SWR of a Comet & Hustler Multi-band Antenna I have here is not a decent, what I deem a usable value at the low end of the 440 to 450 Amateur Band... Even with a decent circulator / isolator panel in for protection I would be wary. ... and she's buying the stairway... s. > n...@... wrote: > I'm using Comet CX-333s (triband - 2/220/440) on 2 > fairly low-level (~700' HAAT) 220 systems. Both > work well. > Bob NO6B
